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Line 6 Spider II 112 Guitar Amplifier
I recently bought a used Line 6 Spider II 112 guitar amplifier. I can’t describe it more awesomely than Line 6 does itself: Spider II 112 packs 12 insane amp models, 7 psychotic effects, and 75-watts...
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Elvis sucks
I don’t like Elvis. I know I’m in the minority. Some people love him. But I simply do not get it. To me he’s famous for one and only one reason. He’s incredibly good looking. He’s the perfect example...
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The Ramen Girl
One good thing about Netflix is that you can watch movies outside the mainstream. I’ve been enjoying Japanese comedies such as Shall We Dance and Big Man Japan. Last night I watched The Ramen Girl. It...
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Review: Ubuntu Linux 10.10
My son has an AspireOne netbook which came with Windows XP installed, but it ran like a dog. It was slow like running Windows 95 on a 486 with 4 megs of ram. (Remember those days?!) Plus, despite the...
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Thoughts on Tron
I saw Tron Legacy this weekend in Imax 3d. I have some thoughts about it. I think the only reason they cast any females in the movie was because they needed someone to wear the ridiculous high-heels...
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Microsoft’s Bing does not read minds
Microsoft has a new advertisement about its search engine Bing. The ad has two guys shopping. One guy asks the other guy whether they should get salsa. The other guy starts talking about salsa dancing....
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My Sacrilegious Post of the Day: National Lampoon’s Animal House Sucks!
I was so excited that National Lampoon’s Animal House was finally released on Blu-ray via Netflix. I waited until my family was gone so I wouldn’t be distracted and then I popped it into my PS3. I...
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Raceless Movie: Like Mike
Yet another one of my movie non-reviews. This time it’s the NBA advertisement Like Mike. The premise is that a 13 year old, black, 4 and 1/2 foot tall, orphan living at an evil orphanage, finds a pair...
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Mike Myers has always sucked
This post is sort of outdated, Mike Myers’ career is all but dead, but I’m only writing it because I recently re-watched So I Married an Axe Murderer. Several years ago Mike Myers was ridiculed for the...
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“Buy Local” (aka, Buy from Us if You Want to Support Us) Is Not a Business Model
I recently went to buy a guitar at an independent music store called Elderly’s Music. They had it listed for about 40 bucks more than everyone else had it, e.g., Guitar Center, Amazon, Musician’s...
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500 Days of Summer: Summer Used Tom
500 Days of Summer is a 2009 romantic/comedy/drama film. The main character is Tom. He falls in love with Summer, after she starts working at his office. Tom is not very “lucky” in love, but truly...
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The last Breaking Bad wasn’t contrived, it was too short
People are complaining that the last Break Bad was too contrived to be believed. I have to agree, somewhat. The keys in the car, Walt’s ability to sneak into Skyler house unnoticed, and the fact that...
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Breaking Bad: Walter Got A Happy Ending
Willa Paskin over at Slate wrote that “Walt didn?t get a happy ending…” but a “sympathetic ending.” What Paskin means is that Walter was morally redeemed. Despite doing terrible things, in the end he...
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Zan from the Wonder Twins is a fucking bad ass
It’s quite common for comic fans to make fun of the Wonder Twins. While Jayna could at least turn into nearly any animal, Zan could only turn into various forms of water, e.g., buckets of water, steam,...
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The pointlessness of Sarah Connor
A recent Big Bang Theory points out that Indiana Jones was completely useless in the movie the Raiders of the Lost Ark. In a nutshell, if Indy had simply taken the month off, the Nazi’s would have...
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Who is Saul Goodman?
As fans of Breaking Bad know, the series ended, in part, with Saul Goodman heading off to Nebraska to assume a new identity and manage a Cinnabon. But instead of showing us that life, the actor who...
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Songs That Objectively Suck
I know what you’re gonna say, the appreciation of music is purely subjective, but I’ve come across some songs that are so bad that they’re objectively bad. Let’s go through them. Animotion’s “Room to...
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The Wolverine
I recently watched The Wolverine. As usual, this is not a typical review, but just observations about it. First, for some reason I was offended that they used the Nagasaki bombing as a plot point in...
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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
I’m halfway through the third season of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and am bored silly. It’s not that it isn’t funny. It’s funny. It’s just that it’s pointless. It’s almost as if it’s a parody of...
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The Point of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Yesterday I wrote about how… well… bad It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is. It’s the same show week after week. The cast of characters divide into two peripherally related situations and do horrible...
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